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Gartner survey finds 85% of infrastructure and operations leaders without full automation expect to increase automation within three years.
Episode 791 10.4.22 Rich Humphrey, vice president of construction product management, Bentley Systems, joins Peggy to discuss some of the biggest challenges facing the construction and infrastructure spaces today. They talk about how technology can help better manage data, leading to lower costs and more-efficient project management overall. Below is an excerpt from the interview. To listen to the conversation from The Peggy Smedley Show, click here or go to https://peggysmedleyshow.com/ to access the entire show. Peggy Smedley: Rich, I love having a guest like you on the show who has just a wealth of experience in the construction and…
Humans, not technologies are the missing link for manufacturing and supply-chain success. For the manufacturing and supply chain sectors, the recent past has been formative—and pre-COVID, this “formative recent past” would have referred to the disruptive shift toward Industry 4.0 technologies, including the IoT (Internet of Things). However, considering the pandemic, the formative recent past must now include all the strife supply chains have faced because of the fallout from COVID-19. Technology is a part of the picture, but it’s far from the whole picture. Supply chain executives have long pursued more visibility within and control over supply chains. What…
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IDC says global shipments of wearable devices declined 6.9% year over year to 107.4 million units in Q2 2022.
In the race to net zero emissions, investment, commitment, and collaboration will be key to success. The IEA (Intl. Energy Agency) reports in order to reach net zero emissions by 2050, annual clean energy investment worldwide will need to triple to reach about $4 trillion by 2030. In fact, IEA says what’s happened up to this point is simply not good enough, considering CO2 emissions have increased significantly (by 60%) since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in the early 1990s. Achieving net zero emissions by 2050, therefore, will require “nothing short of the complete transformation of the global…
Gartner says 74% of supply chain leaders expect circular economy to increase profits through 2025.
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